Dispatches from the 10th Crusade

Entries from What's Wrong with the World tagged with 'free markets'

I find it remarkable how essentially aesthetic elements keep creeping into the discussion of political economy. Sharp-elbowed dialectics could, of course, present these elements in a harshly critical light — distributists with their romance of small property, hard-currency men with...

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Lydia writes, in the gratitude thread below: I wonder sometimes if it is sufficiently appreciated: A strong free market advocacy combined with a hatred of debt (both individual and national), a tough-love, no-bailouts attitude, and praise for independence and self-reliance...

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Localists, agrarians, and other dissidents, critics all of the American politico-economic ethic of biggerbetterfastercheapermore, occasionally celebrate a rhetorical liturgy of execration, in order to damn Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford, and advocate of the "get big...

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Two recent reports in The Wall Street Journal really put flesh on the bones of my argument about what has become of the real estate and finance sectors of the American economy since this crisis of usury began. One...